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I watched a bunch of their videos on Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/user/LandOps1
it seems like:
• A Jeep Rally
• Competitive Geocaching
• All coordinated over ham radio
• In a Field Day style operation with camping
• Practicing emcom/public service radio operating procedures
• With a high-energy professional videographer in the club.

I enjoy the outdoors, my truck can drive on dirt, I know how to work a GPS, I LOVE field day (which, despite ARRL’s claims to the contrary, is a radio-sport contest) but I’ve never done any serious emcomm or public service, but it might be education to learn the operating procedures.

I prefer not to go to California. But don’t need to since we have plenty of desert here in Arizona. And even more fun things we freedom-loving Arizonans like to do and toys to play with….

Is there any "Adventure Radio Club" like that here in AZ?

Seems to me, based on the name, 4x4ham should be such a club!

Is there any interest in starting up some outdoor/off-highway driving/camping/radio events?

I've seen their website and videos and agree with you. It appeals to me as well. I inquired if they had any AZ-based members or activities planned. The reply was that they are expanding and willing to work with any individuals or groups that would like to coordinate with them. I also mentioned Land Ops to a couple of the folks coordinating Quartzfest in January and they said they would reach out to them to see if they could come to Quartzsite and do a presentation for the group. I don't know the status of that request but I guess I could check back to see where it stands. I've talked to a couple ham buddies locally who have some interest as well. It seems this would be a good time of year to try and drum up some interest and something similar here. I'll let you know if we hear anything back from the Land Ops folks regarding Quartzfest.

i looks pretty cool to me. but being just a couple years in the hobby and still a tech and given that my club is small with mostly senior hams that dont do much of anything i dont see it becoming popular in south gerogia. lol. but i would love to at least hang out at there net control and monitor the event.

Russ Chung KI6MLU forwarded this thread to me and after reading the question and replies I guess perhaps an update is due .
I'm Chris Doering KI6QBM President of Land Ops ARC (ARRL affiliated club).

The club is locally based in California, but has recently expanded membership from Coast to Coast at Landops.org membership site. The key to this expansion are individual operators and/or clubs that would like to incorporate the Land Ops style of adventure. Tutorial videos are being produced just for this purpose. In addition, if a group has at least one HF operator they can do what is called concurrent games (ops). Land Ops is currently expanding into HF mobile to mobile, mobile to base, etc...

These two ingredients make it possible to participate in Land Ops style games everywhere.

The video tutorial #5 might shed a little light here, but taken out of context of the series it might NOT describe Land Ops to the fullest especially regarding the navigational aspects.
For what it's worth I'll post it below:

We would love to see new “chapters” formed around the country. All it takes is 2-3 individual organizers who are willing to get things started in their area. We started using Meetup as our initial way of reaching out, but a local club is a perfect platform to start some LandOps adventures. Now that we are putting the playbook on the LandOps.org website, the “secret sauce” is being shared for groups outside of California. As a 5 year member, I can vouch for good fun, as well as a way to improve radio, navigation, off-road, and team skills.

I've seen their website and videos and agree with you. It appeals to me as well. I inquired if they had any AZ-based members or activities planned. The reply was that they are expanding and willing to work with any individuals or groups that would like to coordinate with them. I also mentioned Land Ops to a couple of the folks coordinating Quartzfest in January and they said they would reach out to them to see if they could come to Quartzsite and do a presentation for the group. I don't know the status of that request but I guess I could check back to see where it stands. I've talked to a couple ham buddies locally who have some interest as well. It seems this would be a good time of year to try and drum up some interest and something similar here. I'll let you know if we hear anything back from the Land Ops folks regarding Quartzfest.

Charlie
N2TFS

Hi Charlie, I'm the founder and Pres of Land Ops ARC. I will be attending Quartzfest for my first time in January 2018. It all sounds like Ham heaven to me. Hope to see you there.

(The way I first learned about Land Ops was because Chris (KI6QBM) posted an invitation to a Land Ops event a few years ago in 4x4Ham.) I think that Land Ops should schedule an "op" during Quartzfest so that hams from Arizona could get a feel for a typical event.

ok, We'll look into the possibilities. BTW, where and what trails do you use to take the off road tours? Or is that a secret? Was thinking maybe to keep it simple and incorporate it into your off road drives??

A LandOps briefing is on the Quartzfest schedule for Tuesday afternoon, January 23 at 1400 in Session Area #1 (fire ring). This briefing is intended to give first timers an orientation about the types of "operations" that LandOps conducts.

An Operation is on the schedule for Wednesday, January 24 from 0900 to 1300. You need an off-road capable vehicle, a GPS and ham radio. Optional: APRS.

I believe I will need to coordinate with Charlie. N2TFS. Our group had the idea of doing shorter multi-line runs throughout the day. i.e. 9AM 11AM 1PM 3PM 5PM and allowing people to sign up to accommodate 3-10 vehicles per trip. We heard that there are usually a lot of vehicles on those runs and Land Ops tries to get everyone involved. When we have too many participants like this last weekend we break them up into smaller teams. By doing this our team can manage perhaps up to 50 participants on Wed.

The net control we run would receive check ins and provide instructions to each team as they conduct what we call an "Mini-Op" each team follows two instruction caches and a rendezvous between two team.

I had a great time at Quartzfest 2018. We had eight LandOps members who attended for some or all of the week: Chris, KI6QBM, Jim K6JKB, Greg K6GHL, Candy K6ROX, Peter KK6HQQ, Mike KK6PLA, Dale KF6SBD and myself. In addition, Charlie N2TFS and Frank KB7IQ who led the Quartzfest 4x4 run on Wednesday helped us in planning the the LandOps mini-op which we repeated three times on Wednesday, allowing 25 hams to become familiar with LandOps.

LandOps has created a "playbook" with templates to use to set up LandOps-style operations in your own area. Access to the playbook is available to LandOps members at: http://landops.org

Super Fun!

Agreed, Quartzfest was quite fun! My wife and I drove down from Surprise, AZ to attend the LandOps briefing on Tuesday (1/23/18), and then joined Frank KB7IQ (leader) & Charlie N2TFS (tail-gunner) on Wednesday morning (1/24/18) during the Quartzfest 4x4 run. They kept the group largely together, provided some great narration and trivia for those not native to the area, doing an all-around great job!

We then attended the late-afternoon LandOps Mini-Op as part of the B-Team. It was WAY more fun than I anticipated, due largely to the light-hearted patience shown by the Land-Ops hosts handling B-Team Lead and Special-Comms duties. The experience was just enough to give us a sampling of what such ops involved, and also allowed us the chance to learn a bit about our equipment as well as provide some consideration of what GPS and radio gear we might want to add to the Jeep in the future. You were all great ambassadors for the LandOps.org group; thank you!

Agreed, Quartzfest was quite fun! My wife and I drove down from Surprise, AZ to attend the LandOps briefing on Tuesday (1/23/18), and then joined Frank KB7IQ (leader) & Charlie N2TFS (tail-gunner) on Wednesday morning (1/24/18) during the Quartzfest 4x4 run. They kept the group largely together, provided some great narration and trivia for those not native to the area, doing an all-around great job!

We then attended the late-afternoon LandOps Mini-Op as part of the B-Team. It was WAY more fun than I anticipated, due largely to the light-hearted patience shown by the Land-Ops hosts handling B-Team Lead and Special-Comms duties. The experience was just enough to give us a sampling of what such ops involved, and also allowed us the chance to learn a bit about our equipment as well as provide some consideration of what GPS and radio gear we might want to add to the Jeep in the future. You were all great ambassadors for the LandOps.org group; thank you!

Our pleasure, thanks for attending and doing a great job! I especially liked when the teams called each other as ell as net control using the mesh network and an old fashion phone.